European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes touring the Border with sgt. Dieter Reyes pages 8-9 d Daytona Beach student  3 q Iran Contra affair spoofed by  5 q Indiana Syracuse in Mcaa final Page 21 tripes Utho Himeo a Nomichit. Pulic upon Kef . I�m0 �0c vol. 45, no. 344 monday. March 30, 1987  d 8693 a n Effort to plans off tariffs Tokyo a Japan plans to buy several multimillion Dollar american supercomputers in an Effort to head off penalty duties imposed by the United states in a Trade dispute japanese news papers reported sunday the nationally circulated Asahi Shimun said Japan Hopes the Mea sures will help create an atmosphere that will Lead the United states to re Duce or lift tariffs it has announced on such japanese products As air conditioners radio tape players and communications satellite parts. The . Tariffs to take effect in two weeks were announced after the United slates accused Japan of failing to live unto a 6-month-old agreement to Slop sell ing semiconductors in overseas Market sat unfairly Low prices and to import More .-made chips. According o the Asahi Shimun the japanese Steps also would include taking a positive posture toward . Linns participating in 8 car Telephone project Here and in construction of a 110 billion Airport in Western Japan. Aside from semiconductor Trade . Officials have said other major factors in Trade frictions arc what they Sec As barriers to american firms gaining super computer sales and construction con tracts in Japan. The economic newspaper Nihon Meizai said Japan would buy an Undis closed number of supercomputers Worth $20 million each for use by government agencies and National universities. Supercomputers arc Complex instruments that perform calculations and see Japan on Page 28 Greece plans air sea exercise in Aegean area Athens Greece a greeks rallied around the ruling socialists and labor unions cancelled planned strikes As a standoff with Turkey Over Aegean sea Oil rights ended in a diplomatic Victory for Premier an Dreas Papandreou a 48-hour military Alert was wound Down sunday but officers were not permitted to leave their units military sources said speaking on condition of anonymity. Greece planned a show of military strength with a five Day air sea exercise starting monday in the northeastern Aegean where a turkish research ship had planned Oil exploration in a Continental shelf area claimed by Greece. Turkey stepped Back from a military confrontation in the two nato allies dispute Over Mineral rights in the Aegean Continental shelf through a last minute change in the ship s course. Premier Turgut dial announced that the ship Sis Ojnik a would confine its tests for Oil o territorial Waters provided Greece did the same. Strikes by civil servants and bakery workers set for monday were cancelled in a show of support for the government. Even the greek orthodox Church battling the socialists for control of Church owned land see Aegean on Page 28 in Phot help after ambush a Nicaragua government Soldier la helped away after an ambush by Contra rebels on a troop trans port truck near i plasma Nicaragua. No Canguang officials reported that six government soldiers were killed and eight were wounded in the ambush. Security aides disclose plot to kill Chirac Paris a the . Central intelligence Agency warned France two weeks ago of a lebanese terrorist plot to kill Premier Jacques Chirac French Security sources said saturday. The sources said Chirac s Protection was consider ably increased since the warning and that he started using an armoured limousine. They also said Security measures for Chirac and a number of senior ministers were increased. But the office gave no specific reason for the increased Security and denied any knowledge of a warning from the Cia about a lebanese threat to kill Chirac. The ministry of the Interior which is responsible Fornall police activities refused to confirm or deny the report there was no immediate indication what group was believed to have been plotting against Chirac and nothing to indicate that the warning May have been linked with the arrest in France last weekend of eight alleged pro iranian terrorists six of them tunisian. French Media have reported that those arrests were based on information from German anti terrorist police following arrests there. The sources said a possible motive for the reported plot was the life sentence imposed recently on Leb anese terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. Dollar s 45% dive in Belgium takes its toll  Kaberl Eulern Bureau shape. Belgium Call it Calch-45. In the past two years the Dollat s 45 percent decline no win situation for some members of the . Community. Charles Sampsel whose wife is As signed with . Army in Bel Gium finds his Dol Lar salary no longer covers on base child care cup cases which he pays in francs. It now costs him Money to work. Air Force staff sol. A Cancic Lawrence gave up shopping on the Economy but can t find the variety of goods she wants at the Only , military shopping cent Erin Belgium. Service members in Many other coun tries shield themselves from the de Clining Dollar by retreating onto base but in Belgium where the Dollar has dropped just As dramatically the on base options arc limited we Don t have the myriad facilities where the . Soldiers can spend Dol Lars said an army official Ai shape. You see All the articles about gis com ing Back to the club. It s not  the Greenback has dropped from Al most 70 francs per Dollar about two years ago to a current 38 Franny per Dollar while Cost of living allowances keep sol Diers and airmen put of the belgian poor House no one is living on easy Street we have not experienced a significant increase in indebtedness because of the drop of the Dollar the official with the shape . Army element said but americans arc used to having Lei sure activities and it has affected  the . Military maintains forces in Belgium at shape Chimes Brussels Florenne Ai and Many geographically separated units across the country. But Only Chick res. About 14 Miles from shape has a commissary and Exchange. Dolors can be spent at a . Dining facility on shape and Small cafes outlets at nato Headquarters in Brussels and at to Rennes a. Is ill. Resi dents of Florenne face a 90-Minutedrive to the Chick res commissar. Tie International Headquarters and support come at Shai e offers u full Range of recreational entertainment and Hobby activities but All must be paid for in francs the club system at shape also operates with Fram a. And that cause problems Bolh for . Service members and the clubs with the drop of the Dollar we have seen a significant drop in the number of people at the clubs said an official with the Headquarters support , if they go. They re having Une drink instead of  but operating costs have remained about the Sanie. The of Loci in said thence club com  in the jul  months. As of april i. The officer.1, Dull will no longer offer dinner. The no club is shutting Donn its Lioi lunch serv ices. The Chi list d club will he tin1 Only see dive on Page 28